The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic, whose grief-soaked early verse still dazzles and unsettles.

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

But here, suddenly, in the Dedicatory Poem to the dead Princess Alice, prefixed to the ballad, we strike at once upon the genuine Tennyson, the Tennyson of an earlier time, in all the strength of deep ...

NEARLY all the poems in Tennyson’s new volume 1 have been published separately in periodicals, and were from time to time greeted by the popular press as the Laureate’s latest inanity. Yet a book of ...

Elections, policy debates, legal feuds, riots, scandals, wars, rumors of wars—will any of it matter a thousand years from now? Does any of it matter now? Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lotos-Eaters” ...

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Apart from having a deep appreciation for the prologue to the Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem, “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” I have an even deeper desire to adopt the philosophy of life he presents in those ...